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Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Hey Everyone!! It's Elina here with my final Inspiration Post of 2014 for the Feeling Sketchy blog!!
The project I'm sharing today is a quick and easy centerpiece I created for my table using an 8" cake board as the base.
Here's the pic of the completed project:

For the cake board, I covered it in a snowflake patterned paper from a DCWV "Stack 8" pack.

I added some white glitter tape along the edge, making sure to burnish it down using my bone folder.

And that pretty much completes the base for my centerpiece.

All that's left to do now is to add the other elements.

I went on a treasure hunt in my home to find the items I used for this centerpiece.

I added this snowman luminary that I have had for a few years now.

I found this white candle in my bedroom, tied some silver organza ribbon and added a paper flower from a previous project.

I embellished the flower with a die cut snowflake and rhinestone.

I added a few ornaments I had left over from the tree and made this all white lantern using my Cricut and the Over The Hill cartridge.

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I asked Beccy if I could use one of her tutorials for my inspiration post here on Feeling Sketchy and she has given me permission.

On Day
15, Beccy used a large leaf stamp to construct three dimensional poinsettias
for her card. On day 22 She used a small leaf stamp, from the
"Lovely As A Tree" set, to create a Christmas wreath.

She also gave us this tutorial:

Use a small stamp and three shades of ink to create a holiday
wreath.

You'll
need a small foliage stamp and at least three shades of green ink. If you
don't have a small leaf stamp, consider using a fern, flower, butterfly or
heart - as long as it's small it will

work.

Draw a
feint circle on your piece of card stock with a pencil. This will form the
basic shape of your wreath and can be rubbed out once you have finished
stamping.

Start
stamping with the lightest of your inks. Begin at the centre bottom of
the circle and stamp up one side until you reach the centre top. Repeat
for the other side as shown in the photo below

Fill in
the wreath making sure you tilt the stamp in different ways as you work your
way around the circle. Try to keep the wreath an even thickness all
the way around.

Now ink
the stamp using the middle shade. Starting in the centre at the bottom,
stamp in the darker leaves working around until you're about half way up each
side.

Now
re-ink the stamp in the first colour (the lightest shade) and touch the stem of
the leaf into the middle shade again. Stamp the rest of the way up the
wreath on both sides. This will help to prevent a sudden, and very
obvious, change in colour.

Repeat
the process with the darkest colour, but only work about 1/4 of the way up each
side of the wreath. Re-ink with the middle colour and again tip the stem
into the darkest colour to prevent sudden colour changes.

Now decorate!

The above tutorial used by permission from Beccy's Place

http://www.beccysplace.blogspot.com.au/

I tried to follow this tutorial but I couldn't find a small leaf stamp so used another stamp I had and only two stamp pads. My card doesn't look anything like Beccy's. I will have another try when I find the right stamp. I hope you will have a go at this and do a better job than I did.